INTRODUCTION 



sarily vary with the varying moods which one 

 brings with him to Nature, and which sometimes 

 colour and distort Nature herself. But if in their 

 entirety they convey in any small degree the 

 author s slowly matured conviction that external 

 Nature has a lesson of obedience and love behind 

 all her aberrations and laws, and whispers that 

 &quot; God is in his world &quot; to those who are recep 

 tive and attentive, they will have accomplished 

 the only purpose that the author had in his 

 mind. 



J. P. M. 



